The most recent Earthquake I have experienced.

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Today in Christchurch, New Zealand, I experienced a magnitude 6.3 earthquake. I experienced a magnitude 7.2 quake several months ago; and I have became accustomed to shakes. But quite frankly; I was terrified today. I was in my school library at the time. As soon as the earthquake occurred, I collectively placed myself underneath a table, whilst the library fell down around me.

As I sit here writing this - I tolerate continuous aftershocks. I am merely posting this to inform those who know me that I am in a fine condition. My Mother's motor car has been crushed by a collapsed car park, and unfortunately my iPad was inside of the vehicle. 65 people have been confirmed dead, and 150 are stranded inside of a building in the CBD.


Here is a link to a video that may be of some benefit to those who are concerned or interested.
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/chch-qu ... 8278/video

Glad your OK Helixstein. iPad might actually be OK? Just good your Mum wasn't in the car with it.
I don't like what I'm seeing on TV, the more I see the worse it looks, the CTV building is smoking rubble it was 7 stories.

I am hoping that my iPad is fine. Trust Apple to make robust tablets.

ONENEWS has informative facts about the quake.

Glad to hear you're alright. I hope everything goes well for those 150 stranded people

I'm glad you're safe.

I'm glad you are ok. I was in the Northridge earthquake, which was quite scary as it was a 7.1 with a high ground velocity and the area I lived in had the highest magnitude of liquifaction in the country. I was saved by the grace of California's stringent building codes...however the place I'm living in now is much older with plaster walls and a crack down the middle of the ceiling...above my bed, and the tiles in the kitchen seem to be cracking for no reason, so I'm skeptical of it's seismic integrity.

I live in Christchurch, too. Some of my immediate friends and family have houses that are unlivable, and a few have minor injuries like fractured arms. But they're all alive, and not badly injured, and that's lead to me and a group I know giving ourselves the title 'luckiest of the unlucky'. My area was pretty untouched, too, just a few cracks here and there. No liquification or anything like that.

I've been working down at the welfare center on eight-hour-shifts, doing what I can do help. Have you checked out the UC Student Army? It can help a lot with emotional aftereffects to get things done and help out. Was your area badly hit? Do you have water? (Obviously you've got power, which is good.)

When do you go back to school? Do you know yet? I've got another week and a half off. Going to have a pile-up of internals once we get back, eh? But I'm finding it a bit hard to concentrate on school work, despite assignments being put up online. At the moment I'm taking the extra time to develop my own interests, and research further into areas of rationality and AI that have started appealing to me lately. I don't have enough of a maths background to make a career of them, but I could work with them in a periphery sense in politics or education, and that's what I'm looking at now. These events do have the dubious positive of temporarily shaking you out of the mundane, and making you look at the big picture. You can't live a life that way, but a month of it - well, that's darn useful.

About the only good thing to come from this earthquake. So much destruction - I went down to the CBD yesterday to look at what new properties were for sale (the offices wouldn't give details over the phone), and the destruction there was just so huge - it looked in some places like it had been cut and pasted in, because you'd have a building with a wall missing and debris everywhere surrounded by ones that were unaffected. Surreal.

How are you holding up a week or so into it all? Is your house structurally sound?

Anyway, good luck with everything, and I'm glad you're okay. I'll be on here a bit if you want to talk/ share info, feel free to send me a private message.

Cheers,
Bayes